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Title: Santa Cruz Woman's Club records
Dates: 1907-1982
Collection number: MS 73
Creator:
Santa Cruz Woman's Club
Collection Size:
10 boxes
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
Special Collections and Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection contains scrapbooks, minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the club.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Santa Cruz Woman's Club records. MS 73. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Gift of the Santa Cruz Woman's Club in 2004.
The Santa Cruz Woman's Club was organized in 1907 as the Saturday Afternoon Club. The founders were Mrs. M. Tanner Gushee,
Mrs. J.P. Twist, Mrs. W. H. Williamson, Mrs F. W. Swanton and Mrs. Ella Vivienne Noe Phillips. Mrs. Alexnder McLean served
as the first President from 1907-1909. The club became affiliated with the California Federation of Women's Clubs in March
1908 and with the national organization, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in March 1912. The Santa Cruz Woman's Club
incorporated in 1954.
At the end of 1926, the name was changed to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club. According to the 1927-1928 Yearbook, Twentieth Program
Year:
"This is the close of the first decade of the local Woman's Club. For nineteen years it has been valued and loved as the Saturday
Afternoon Club. But a decade brings changes. The automobile and highway development have made it possible for sons and daughters
to come home for the week-ends, and for old friends to meet again. Our hills and beaches have their own magnetism and our
hospitable club members found it necessary to be in their homes over the weekends. So at the close of the nineteenth year
the members voted to change the name to the Santa Cruz Woman's Club, and the meeting days to the second and fourth Thursdays."
Santa Cruz Woman's Club gives scholarships, and supports various philanthopies, such as the Veterans and active military with
Christmas gift bags. They are also a social club with quarterly meetings, social progams and activities from September through
June.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains scrapbooks, minutes, treasurer's report and yearbooks of the club.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Santa Cruz Woman's Club--Archives
Saturday Afternoon Club--Archives
Women--California--Societies and clubs--History
California Federation of Women's Clubs